COZAD - Two back-to-back nine run innings allowed Blair to jump out and win convincingly against Cozad 20-2 in five innings at Muny Park, in an elimination game at the Class B Senior State Tournament ... Read More

Department of Veterans Affairs officials say funding of adult day care and other skilled and nonskilled services for Nebraska and western Iowa veterans has been bolstered by belt-tightening and will continue through September 30th, past the scheduled... Read More

Iowa's annual sales tax holiday set to coincide with back-to-school shopping also brings Nebraskans looking for bargains across the Missouri River. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that Iowa's sales tax holiday this year is being held ... Read More

COZAD - Behind a masterful pitching performance, the Hickman Titans cruised past the Cozad Reds 12-0 in five innings, in the opening round of the Class B Senior State Legion Tournament at Muny Park Saturday night.
Hickman found the scoreboard firs... Read More

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has banned target shooting from portions of Hamburg Bend Wildlife Management Area for safety issues. The area sits southeast of Nebraska City in Otoe County. Target sh... Read More

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The state mistakenly notified thousands of Kansans this week that their Medicaid coverage had been canceled.
The Kansas Department of Children and Families said a computer glitch caused the incorrect letters to be sent out.
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An Omaha man has been killed and his wife critically injured in a motorcycle crash in western Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports 81-year-old Willard Crowl was killed and 78-year-old Sonya Crowl was injured in the Thursday morning crash near Ona... Read More

A Ravenna teen faces charges in juvenile court after being accused of using a vehicle to push over dozens of road signs between Kearney and Ravenna _ including stop, yield and curve signs.
The Buffalo County Sheriff's Office tells the Kearney Hub th... Read More

Lincoln - University of Nebraska men’s basketball coach Tim Miles announced Saturday the hiring of Phil Beckner as an assistant coach for the Husker basketball program.
Miles believes that Beckner’s coaching experience on the collegi... Read More

LINCOLN -- Three girls were injured when an inflatable collided with a boat Friday evening at Ginger Woods, a private lake 1 1/2 miles southwest of Valley.
At approximately 7:46 p.m. Friday, a 45-year-old woman operating a boat towing the inflatab... Read More